There are great expectations for modeling and virtual prototyping in the semiconductor equipment industry. We discuss key areas where modeling and analysis are being used and have met some of these expectations. We identify interdisciplinary analysis as a requisite for virtual prototyping that will continue to meet current and future expectations. Since semiconductor equipment represents a desi...

This chapter explains the process how PeaCE generates the software/hardware codes for a specific prototyping board. PeaCE automatically generates target C and VHDL codes with interface codes including device drivers. In the current release, we target the ARM versatile prototyping system and Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x for device driver generation. To use another prototyping board and OS, you need to ...

An empirical interpretation suggests that mixed approaches to software development will benefit from the strengths of both specifying and prototyping. On functionality, robustness, ease of use, and ease of learning mixed approaches led to products of a quality that was at least comparable to the products of specialized approaches based on either specifying or prototyping. Moreover, the Spiral M...

This is a position paper for the player-centred game design workshop at CHI2006 Conference. The aim is to explore the use of prototypes in educational game design. Prototyping is discussed as both a method of player-centred design and software engineering. The methods of prototyping cover evolutionary prototyping and the use of low-technology prototypes and mockups in collaboration with players...

In this paper we describe the rapid prototyping of an adaptive noise canceler using the Graphical RApid Prototyping Environment (GRAPE), developed at our laboratory. It is an environment which facilitates the realtime emulation and implementation of synchronous DSP applications on heterogeneous target platforms consisting of DSPs and FPGAs. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of real-time pro...

Prototyping has become a key word during the last years, just like s t r u c t u r e d programming in the seventies. It is often assumed that a prototyping-oriented software development strategy may substantially contribute to the solution of problems associated with conventional software development. Based on experience from a research project, concepts of prototypingoriented software developm...

Prototyping is one of the core activities of User-Centered Design (UCD) processes and an integral component of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Nonetheless, for many years, prototyping was synonym of paper-based mock-ups and only more recently we can say that dedicated tools for supporting prototyping activities really reach the market. In this paper we propose to analyze the evolutio...

The integration of virtual and physical workflow is a major ongoing trend in engineering, with substantial potential for benefit during design development stages. Within this trend, the emerging field Mixed Reality technologies provide capability to couple realms prototyping. Applications date remain ad-hoc however, little clarity breadth benefits afforded by Reality. Through systematic review ...

 Conventional CAD systems have not yet proven their ability to provide support for activities which characterise the early conceptual phase of design. We propose to refer to this set of capabilities of the human designer in conventional design as, design prototyping. We define the theoretical limitations of current CAD systems for supporting design prototyping, and postulate the potential of f...